About May 5
May 5, 2025 is the 125th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 288 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 5
- 553 –The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
- 1260 –Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
- 1762 –Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
- 1789 –In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
- 1809 –The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
- 1821 –Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- 1860 –Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
- 1862 –Cinco de Mayo: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
- 1866 –Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
- 1940 –World War II: Norwegian Campaign – Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to the Nazis after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
- 1940 –World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
- 1945 –World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
- 1946 –The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- 1950 –Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand.
- 1955 –West Germany gains full sovereignty.
- 1972 –Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
- 1980 –Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
- 1994 –American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that many in the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime. However, significant numbers of Americans were also in favor of it.
- 2006 –The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
- 2010 –Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.
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